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With its latest stamp release in the Canadian recording artists series, Canada Post is paying tribute to music’s living legends, and making history in the process. For the first time, bands – rather than individual performers – are being featured on its stamps, including RUSH, The Tragically Hip, The Guess Who and Beau Dommage. Collectively, the featured bands have sold tens of millions of records worldwide and achieved critical success that has earned them an array of awards. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced “Assassin’s Creed: Brahman”, a new graphic novel set to launch this fall in North America that whisks fans away to 19th century India – a land of mysterious golden palaces and cursed treasure chambers held in the iron grip of British colonial rule. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has revealed Copperhead as one of the eight assassins featured in Batman: Arkham Origins. The character was unveiled at Comic-Con International in San Diego at a panel for the game, which included WB Games Montréal Creative Director Eric Holmes, Armature Studios Game Director Mark Pacini, DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, and actors Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker, the voices of Batman and The Joker, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Designed for the entrepreneurial owners of established businesses, the PROFIT Growth Summit taking place in Vancouver on September 10th will connect you with the people and ideas that can take your enterprise to the next level. The first 200 registrants will receive free copies of the books Ownership Thinking and Relevant Selling. The early-bird rate of $249 is available until August 1st. Registration after August 1st will cost $329. The Summit will be held at the Fairmont Pacific Rim from 7:30am until 5:00pm. Read the rest of this entry »

At long last, Super NES classic EarthBound is now available as a Virtual Console game in the Nintendo eShop for Wii U for $9.99. Nintendo announced its availability during today’s Nintendo Direct Mini video. Nintendo also revealed that Nintendo Zone locations will be getting StreetPass enhancements to let players connect with one another, and reminded people about this weekend’s Pikmin 3 demo program at select EB Games stores. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced the Limited Edition Pack contents of the open world action-adventure game, Watch Dogs™. The Limited Edition Pack will be available on November 19 across retailers in North America for $129.99 for PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One®, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, at their respective system launches, along with its release on PlayStation®3, Xbox 360® and Windows® PC. Fans can stay connected to the world of Watch Dogs with the following contents available in the Limited Edition Pack: Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced that 17 interactive digital media projects received a total of $12.1M in funding as part of the first round of production support from the Experimental Stream.  The Experimental Stream encourages the creation of innovative, interactive digital media content and software applications. Read the rest of this entry »

RBC has announced its RBC Secure Cloud mobile payments service (patent-pending). This new technology, a first in Canada, will allow clients to more safely and securely pay for purchases using their mobile devices. Keeping sensitive client data secure with RBC in the cloud, not on the phone, makes RBC Secure Cloud a safer, faster, more flexible solution. RBC will bring RBC Secure Cloud to market by the end of the year with debit and credit on a number of smartphone platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Retro City Rampage developer Vblank Entertainment has announced that the big game update released last month for the PC/Steam versions is now on available for PS3™ and PS®Vita. The studio also issued a reminder that there are some incredible deals available for those who have not yet purchased the game. Retro City Rampage is currently available on PC, Steam, PS3™ and PS®Vita for $ 4.99. Plus you can increase your savings if you take advantage of the Cross-Buy Deal, where purchasers get both the PS3™ & PS®Vita versions together for only $4.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Privatis Technology Corporation, an innovator of a sophisticated privacy protection suite offering anonymous communications supported by unsurpassed robocall and scammer blocking technologies, has opened its worldwide headquarters in Vancouver’s vibrant and historic Gastown. Since 2010, Privatis has powered Privacy Shield™ for AutoTrader.com and is available to all U.S. subscribers on the site boasting 16 million unique monthly visitors. Privatis CEO Steven J. McAuley, a veteran auto sector executive, identified a growing industry problem and led a team of technologists to create the Secure Messaging™ suite of proprietary products to support online classified ad sites and marketplaces and founded the Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC). Read the rest of this entry »